Example sentences of "[vb base] up the [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sheer walls thirty feet high enclose you , the way upstream being a clamber up the smooth lip of a nine-foot dry waterfall that takes you into Upper Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 2 | We must not only abide by a precise form , but also build up the right waves of emotion to give it full human significance . |
| 3 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 4 | This is , however , a revealing case study in that disagreements show up the different modes of explanation clearly . |
| 5 | She heard him catch at air , and cough up the last slime of the river . |
| 6 | Snuff up the future carnage of the flight . |
| 7 | Not only did the fragrances of the essences cover up the putrid smells of gangrenous wounds , they also suppressed them by retarding putrefaction . |
| 8 | For my part , I sometimes think of the film Psycho as I walk up the bleaker staircases to people 's homes in Hackney . |
| 9 | I retrace my steps and walk up the righthand arm of the T , where the roadway is closed by a second set of iron gates . |
| 10 | More generalised disruptive markings which simply break up the broad shape of the body are found in the many spotted or striped species . |
| 11 | The general appearance of the area is a drab one : there are few green spaces and few trees break up the uniform lines of terraced and semi-detached housing . |
| 12 | The journey is scenically attractive , and Trogen is a neat village where white-fronted , red-roofed villas spread up the green slopes of the Gibris . |
| 13 | ‘ go around and hold up the northern half of this wood . |
| 14 | In fact the script , which saw American lawyer Thomas Ward cleared of the charge of stealing £5.2 million from Guinness while he was working on the brewing giant 's takeover of Distillers Group , did little more than tie up the loose ends of the storyline . |
| 15 | It is the wealth creators , he said , who open up the great possibilities for improvement in our society . |
| 16 | from the first of 1 january 1994 a treaty between the EC and EFTA open up the previous regulations for work permits between the countries of the EC ( or maybe EEC ? — eg Great Britain , Spain , Germany + 10 and EFTA ( Norway , Sweden , Switzerland + a couple of others ) . |
| 17 | Open up the last bit of paper and all will be revealed . |
| 18 | Add up the total employment in public services in 1981 , that is , the last three categories . |
| 19 | Add up the total employment in all the transport and distributive industries , the top six categories . |
| 20 | b ) Add up the three angles of each triangle and compare your answers . |
| 21 | c ) Add up the three angles of the four other triangles you have drawn in this exercise . |
| 22 | Why did those ancient replicators give up the cavalier freedom of the primeval soup and take to swarming in huge colonies ? |
| 23 | With the bolt in the hole , bring up the second part of the joint , and mark round the circumference of the bolt . |
| 24 | I walked slowly back up the shabby road to this now miserable room , thinking all the while of what I ought to do or what I could do if I was ever going to outmanoeuvre these cunning poisoners . |
| 25 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 26 | I wanted to satisfy my client , and if possible pick up the five G's on the way . |
| 27 | Pick up the second edge of the band keeping the stitches in the hooks again , then knit them through . |
| 28 | There they pick up the little grubs in their jaws and carry them back to the building site . |
| 29 | using the yellow latch tool , pick up the left half of the first stitch on the right into the hook . |
| 30 | The choline-containing phospholipids make up the major fraction of the lipid exposed at the cell surface , while the negatively charged phospholipids are confined to the cytoplasmic surface of the bilayer . |